SPECIAL"Walking With Dinosaurs," which will be in Birmingham, Alabama, at the BJCC Arena in April, features realistic animatronic puppets.

"Walking With Dinosaurs -- The Arena Spectacular," the stage version of an award-winning BBC TV series, is headed to Birmingham, Alabama. The show will have eight performances April 1-4 at the BJCC Arena.

"The show tells a very big story of the dinosaurs on Earth," says Tim Choy, national publicist for "Walking With Dinosaurs." "You watch them interact with each other. You see a lot of what they were like and how they moved."

More than 700 million people watched the original BBC series, which won six Emmy Awards. The tour launched in 2007, and more than 2 million people have seen it.

The show features 10 large dinosaurs and five smaller dinosaurs. Each dinosaur takes a team of three people to run it: a driver and two puppeteers.

"The show is so big," Choy says. "I think all of the seats afford a different but good view. The largest dinosaur is practically the height of the ceiling of the building, so seats high up are good, too."

Performances are April 1-3 at 7 p.m.; April 4 at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and April 5 at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.